| 2026 | GECCO | Bio-Inspired Multi-Objective Batch Active Learning for Skin Lesion Classification. | Nancy Kalaj, Matteo Bando, Simon Rokusek, Ludovico Cappellato, Erik Nielsen, Stefano Genetti, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2026 | GECCO | GExPC: An Explainable Evolutionary Approach for Crack Segmentation with Probabilistic Circuits. | Erik Nielsen, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2026 | GECCO | Learning Terrain-Aware Edge Costs for Ant-Colony Route Planning via Genetic Programming. | Asia Panizza, Davide Colosimo, Filippo Marcon, Erik Nielsen, Stefano Genetti, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2026 | SmartComp | PesTwin: a biology-informed Digital Twin for enabling precision farming. | Andrea De Antoni, Matteo Rucco, Alberto Maria Cattaneo, Ege Gezer, Giuseppe Sulis, Paola Draicchio, Giovanni Iacca, Andrea Pugliese, Maria Vittoria Mancini |
| 2025 | AAAI | SMoSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks. | Mtys Vincze, Laura Ferrarotti, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Bruno Lepri, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | CoDIT | A Multi-policy Approach Based on Clustering for Minimizing the Damage on a Falling Ballbot. | Giulia Buzzetti, Michel Aractingi, Davide Zappetti, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | CVPR | Rethinking Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Two Stages. | Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini, Giovanni Iacca, Elisa Ricci |
| 2025 | GECCO | Interactive Evolutionary Optimization of Visual Explainable AI through Gestalt Principles with Human Feedback. | Doina Bucur, Sara Miotto, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Chiara Camilla Rambaldi Migliore, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | GECCO | A Hybrid Constrained Programming with Genetic Algorithm for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem. | Alessandro Lorenzi, Stefano Genetti, Chiara Camilla Rambaldi Migliore, Marco Roveri, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | VTC | Decentralized IoT-Edge Computing: An LSTM-Based Federated Learning Framework for Personalized Task Failure Prediction. | Nawaz Ali, Mir Hassan, Ali Hassan Sodhro, Gianluca Aloi, Raffaele Gravina, Claudio Savaglio, Giovanni Iacca, Giancarlo Fortino |
| 2025 | VTC | Enhancing Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition Through Knowledge Distillation. | Hafiz Muhammad Bilal, Mir Hassan, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | VTC | A TinyML Approach for the Classification of Bean Crop Diseases. | Mir Hassan, Wamiq Raza, Varvara Fadeeva, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2025 | VTC | A Federated Multi-Task Learning Framework with Dual Attention Mechanisms for Smart Buildings. | Mir Hassan, Kasim Sinan Yildrim, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | CVPR | MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning. | Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini, Elia Cunegatti, Gaowen Liu, Giovanni Iacca, Elisa Ricci |
| 2024 | GECCO | The Effect of Training Schedules on Morphological Robustness and Generalization. | Edoardo Barba, Anil Yaman, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | Many-Objective Evolutionary Influence Maximization: Balancing Spread, Budget, Fairness, and Time. | Elia Cunegatti, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | An investigation on the use of Large Language Models for hyperparameter tuning in Evolutionary Algorithms. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Fabio Caraffini, Anil Yaman, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | NEvoFed: A Decentralized Approach to Federated NeuroEvolution of Heterogeneous Neural Networks. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Ivanoe De Falco, Antonio Della Cioppa, Giovanni Iacca, Umberto Scafuri |
| 2024 | GECCO | Comparing Large Language Models and Grammatical Evolution for Code Generation. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Chiara Camilla Rambaldi Migliore, Marco Roveri, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | Neuron-centric Hebbian Learning. | Andrea Ferigo, Elia Cunegatti, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | Accelerating GP Genome Evaluation Through Real Compilation with a Multiple Program Single Data Approach. | Vincius Veloso de Melo, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | Balancing human livability and bumblebee population in urban green areas via Agent-Based Model and Evolutionary Algorithms. | Chiara Camilla Rambaldi Migliore, Omar Rota Stabelli, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | GECCO | Multi-Objective Evolutionary Hindsight Experience Replay for Robot Manipulation Tasks. | Erdi Sayar, Giovanni Iacca, Alois Knoll |
| 2024 | PPSN | Influence Maximization in Hypergraphs Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. | Stefano Genetti, Eros Ribaga, Elia Cunegatti, Quintino F. Lotito, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2024 | SENSYS | Fast-Inf: Ultra-Fast Embedded Intelligence on the Batteryless Edge. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Pietro Farina, Eren Yildiz, Renan Beran Kilic, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2023 | EWSN | FedEdge: Federated Learning with Docker and Kubernetes forScalable and Efficient Edge Computing. | Mir Hassan, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2023 | GECCO | Evolutionary F1 Race Strategy. | Andrea Bonomi, Evelyn Turri, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2023 | GECCO | Self-Building Neural Networks. | Andrea Ferigo, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2023 | SAC | Quality Diversity Evolutionary Learning of Decision Trees. | Andrea Ferigo, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2022 | GECCO | McCall, David Walker: The intersection of evolutionary computation and explainable AI. | Jaume Bacardit, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Stefano Cagnoni, Giovanni Iacca, John A. W |
| 2022 | GECCO | Interpretable pipelines with evolutionary optimized modules for reinforcement learning tasks with visual inputs. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2022 | GECCO | Interpretable AI for policy-making in pandemics. | Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2022 | GECCO | Reinforcement learning based adaptive metaheuristics. | Michele Tessari, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2022 | PPSN | Large-Scale Multi-objective Influence Maximisation with Network Downscaling. | Elia Cunegatti, Giovanni Iacca, Doina Bucur |
| 2021 | GECCO | Evo-RL: evolutionary-driven reinforcement learning. | Ahmed Hallawa, Thorsten Born, Anke Schmeink, Guido Dartmann, Arne Peine, Lukas Martin, Giovanni Iacca, A. E. Eiben, Gerd Ascheid |
| 2021 | GECCO | Graph-aware evolutionary algorithms for influence maximization. | Kateryna Konotopska, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2021 | GECCO | Genetic improvement of routing in delay tolerant networks. | Michela Lorandi, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2021 | GECCO | A signal-centric perspective on the evolution of symbolic communication. | Quintino Francesco Lotito, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2021 | GECCO | Black-box adversarial attacks using evolution strategies. | Hao Qiu, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2021 | GECCO | Seeking quality diversity in evolutionary co-design of morphology and control of soft tensegrity modular robots. | Enrico Zardini, Davide Zappetti, Davide Zambrano, Giovanni Iacca, Dario Floreano |
| 2020 | FRUCT | Evolutionary optimization of Drone Trajectories Based on Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance. | Alex Bojeri, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2020 | FRUCT | Multi-Head CNN-LSTM with Prediction Error Analysis for Remaining Useful Life Prediction. | Hyunho Mo, Federico Lucca, Jonni Malacarne, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2020 | GECCO | Novelty producing synaptic plasticity. | Anil Yaman, Giovanni Iacca, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, George Fletcher, Mykola Pechenizkiy |
| 2020 | JURIX | A Genetic Approach to the Ethical Knob. | Giovanni Iacca, Francesca Lagioia, Andrea Loreggia, Giovanni Sartor |
| 2019 | GECCO | Evaluating MAP-Elites on constrained optimization problems. | Stefano Fioravanzo, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2019 | GECCO | Learning with delayed synaptic plasticity. | Anil Yaman, Giovanni Iacca, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, George H. L. Fletcher, Mykola Pechenizkiy |
| 2019 | ICIAP | Regularized Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Neural Topology Search. | Cristiano Saltori, Subhankar Roy, Nicu Sebe, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2018 | GECCO | Evaluating surrogate models for multi-objective influence maximization in social networks. | Doina Bucur, Giovanni Iacca, Andrea Marcelli, Giovanni Squillero, Alberto Paolo Tonda |
| 2018 | GECCO | Limited evaluation cooperative co-evolutionary differential evolution for large-scale neuroevolution. | Anil Yaman, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Giovanni Iacca, George H. L. Fletcher, Mykola Pechenizkiy |
| 2017 | GECCO | Energy-efficient environment mapping via evolutionary algorithm optimized multi-agent localization. | Ahmed Hallawa, Stephan Schlupkothen, Giovanni Iacca, Gerd Ascheid |
| 2016 | GECCO | Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca, Dario Floreano |
| 2016 | GECCO | The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework. | Guillaume Leclerc, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca, Dario Floreano |
| 2014 | GECCO | The tradeoffs between data delivery ratio and energy costs in wireless sensor networks: a multi-objectiveevolutionary framework for protocol analysis. | Doina Bucur, Giovanni Iacca, Giovanni Squillero, Alberto Paolo Tonda |
| 2014 | ICDM | Online Fusion of Incremental Learning for Wireless Sensor Networks. | Hedde H. W. J. Bosman, Giovanni Iacca, Heinrich J. Wrtche, Antonio Liotta |
| 2013 | CEC | A CMA-ES super-fit scheme for the re-sampled inheritance search. | Fabio Caraffini, Giovanni Iacca, Ferrante Neri, Lorenzo Picinali, Ernesto Mininno |
| 2013 | CEC | Super-fit Multicriteria Adaptive Differential Evolution. | Fabio Caraffini, Ferrante Neri, Jixiang Cheng, Gexiang Zhang, Lorenzo Picinali, Giovanni Iacca, Ernesto Mininno |
| 2013 | CEC | Single particle algorithms for continuous optimization. | Giovanni Iacca, Fabio Caraffini, Ferrante Neri, Ernesto Mininno |
| 2013 | ICDM | Online Extreme Learning on Fixed-Point Sensor Networks. | Hedde H. W. J. Bosman, Antonio Liotta, Giovanni Iacca, Heinrich J. Wrtche |
| 2013 | SMC | Anomaly Detection in Sensor Systems Using Lightweight Machine Learning. | Hedde H. W. J. Bosman, Antonio Liotta, Giovanni Iacca, Heinrich J. Wrtche |
| 2012 | ICAISC | Compact Bacterial Foraging Optimization. | Giovanni Iacca, Ferrante Neri, Ernesto Mininno |
| 2011 | CEC | Ensemble strategies in Compact Differential Evolution. | Rammohan Mallipeddi, Giovanni Iacca, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Ferrante Neri, Ernesto Mininno |